The second season of "The Good Wife" will conclude on Tuesday night, having given viewers plenty of incestuous politics, office lust and hostility, dirty campaign tricks, ripped-from-the-headlines legal cases. What more do you expect?

By ADAM LIPTAK and RALPH BLUMENTHAL; Maureen Balleza contributed reporting for this article

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